By Carly Brant for Eurasianet In late 2025, Russia launched a new Russian-language television channel in Kyrgyzstan, aiming ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia has not only killed tens of thousands of Ukrainians and ruined much of the country's infrastructure since the start of the ...

Born in Crimea and raised in Kherson, journalist Yevheniia Virlych grew up speaking both Ukrainian and Russian in her daily life. It wasn’t until 2022, when she and her family lived through the ...

The Russian parliament’s lower chamber, the State Duma, has approved in its third and final reading a controversial bill that would allow the government to regulate the basic pillars of minority ...

June 6 was declared International Russian language day by the United Nations in 2010 to coincide with the birthday of Aleksandr Pushkin, considered the father of modern Russian literature. In terms of ...

The complex language history of Russia and Ukraine long ago set the stage for today’s conflict between the two countries. In an impassioned speech to the Russian parliament in March 2014, Russia’s ...

In Chernihiv, northeast of Kyiv, Ukrainian language lessons take place in one of the few intact rooms in the city’s public library, damaged earlier this year when the Russians pummeled the city with ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has launched a campaign to promote the national language after almost two decades of retreat -- to match the country's increasing economic and political confidence. Sign up ...

Rebecca King is the first student in University of Delaware history to receive both a Boren Award and Critical Language Scholarship. King’s immersive language study in Kyrgyzstan and Russia delivered ...

TALLINN, Estonia — When school started this year for Mikalay in Belarus, the 15-year-old discovered that his teachers and administrators no longer called him by that name. Instead, they referred to ...